The Boston Globe

Spotlight's "Private schools, painful secrets," May 2016 Fourteen years after its church investigation, the Globe's Spotlight Team turned to New England's elite private schools and found that at least 67 had faced allegations since the early 1990s that staff sexually abused or harassed more than 200 students, many of them ignored or covered up. The team contacted 224 schools about misconduct allegations; at first just 23 replied. It is the closest follow-up to the 2002 work, and useful for anyone who assumed the lessons of the church scandal had already been learned by secular institutions.